@bbigford I manage 3 separate Synology NAS units for clients, 2 with dynamic IPs and 1 with static IP and the requirements were essentially exactly the same for all 3. Ensure the correct port was directed to the device and DSM just worked. Wonder if your user has missed something.

The default port for DSM for HTTP is 5000 but for HTTPS it's 5001. Could that be the issue you're having?

@jaredbusch said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@nashbrydges said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

Btw, I noticed directory browsing is enabled by default. Is it best to make the changes to the /etc/httpd/conf.d/autoindex.conf file to disable this for the server globally?

That would be an apache security setting and not directly related to the install.

Thanks. Disabled it in the vhost file.

Btw, I noticed directory browsing is enabled by default. Is it best to make the changes to the /etc/httpd/conf.d/autoindex.conf file to disable this for the server globally?

@jaredbusch said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@nashbrydges said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

One awesome function is the Export capability. If I export a book to a PDF, all subsequent Chapters and Pages are also exported. It creates an index page linked to the child sections allowing navigation to the child sections within the PDF file.

If you are going to export to PDF a lot, there is another package you need to install

https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/pdf-rendering/

Thanks for this.

One awesome function is the Export capability. If I export a book to a PDF, all subsequent Chapters and Pages are also exported. It creates an index page linked to the child sections allowing navigation to the child sections within the PDF file.

This looks like it could work for multi-tenant environment.

• Created a new role and granted no permissions whatsoever.
• Created a new book with a sample page within the book
• Clicked on "More" at top right and assigned View only privileges to this new role I created
• Created new user and assigned user to new role
• Logged in as new user and all I can see is the test book to which I granted permissions. I also can't create any new material because those permissions weren't granted. When I search for a document that was created in the Admin role, I cannot see any search results that I know exist under the Admin role but that haven't been granted access to on this restricted user role. All I can see as this restricted user is the single book that I've granted View access to.
• The book permissions also cascade to other pages created in the same book so once permissions are set at the book, the are also set for child sections.

@black3dynamite said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
<Directory /var/www/html/bookstack/public>
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
#Options +Indexes
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/bookstack/public
ServerName wiki.example.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/bookstack.error.log
CustomLog /var/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

This combined setup worked perfectly!

@black3dynamite said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

https://deviantengineer.com/2017/02/bookstack-centos7/

I'm testing this install next...just for fun.

@scottalanmiller said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@nashbrydges said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@scottalanmiller said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@nashbrydges said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

By the way, if someone much smarter than I (uh-hum @scottalanmiller or @JaredBusch or others) is willing to take the time to figure out how to install this on Fedora, I'm willing to give your instructions a try

It has very few requirements, looks like it is roughly the same as a really simple WordPress install...

https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/installation/

Yeah, the composer install/setup is what's got me stumped. Never used that before or at least not in my short use of Linux OSs.

Maybe I missed that part, where is the composer install?

You can see it on the sample install script but doesn't mention in the manual install.

https://github.com/BookStackApp/devops/blob/master/scripts/installation-ubuntu-16.04.sh

@scottalanmiller said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@nashbrydges said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

By the way, if someone much smarter than I (uh-hum @scottalanmiller or @JaredBusch or others) is willing to take the time to figure out how to install this on Fedora, I'm willing to give your instructions a try

It has very few requirements, looks like it is roughly the same as a really simple WordPress install...

https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/installation/

Yeah, the composer install/setup is what's got me stumped. Never used that before or at least not in my short use of Linux OSs.

By the way, if someone much smarter than I (uh-hum @scottalanmiller or @JaredBusch or others) is willing to take the time to figure out how to install this on Fedora, I'm willing to give your instructions a try

So I used the script provided in the Installation documentation for evaluation and then configured Nginx proxy to handle proxy and SSL. Problem was that the login page while worked perfectly when accessing the server on the local network had display issues when access via the FQDN.

If anyone uses the script on Ubuntu, after install, you'll need to go to /var/www/bookstack/.env file and make sure to enter your domain name as an app variable including protocol (https).

APP_URL=https://my.domain.com

Now that I can access the site via the domain, I need to figure out how to fix the mixed content warning in the browser.

@jaredbusch Yes it apparently does. Supports both WYSIWYG and markdown

I've been looking for an attractive, useful, functional wiki and wasn't really impressed any anything that was out there. Wiki.js was a potential option but with 1 primary contributor and functionality that didn't fully fit my needs, I kept looking and found this.

https://www.bookstackapp.com/

Takes the concept of Books -> Chapters -> Pages to the wiki

The mobile interface seems to be pretty useable too. I'm not sure how it will handle multiple clients and security but will be testing.

I recently picked up a new (to me) Dell R720XD for my home lab, stuffed it full of SSDs and now that I've got a ton more capacity, I'm itching for a new project that I can try out. Hoping to get a few fresh ideas from anyone here who might be working on something interesting.

I'm already running VMs for:

• Plex
• FreePBX
• Alfresco
• Nextcloud
• Sophos XG
• Fastvue Reporter
• Mattermost
• Apache Guacamole
• Minecraft
• Unifi
• Snipe-IT
• SuiteCRM
• Piwik
• A few websites, some WordPress some PHP some simple HTML
• Veeam Availability Suite
• Veeam Backup for Office 365

The more I think about it, the more I think that backing up the entire VM makes the most since in that it's the simplest approach for the backup. Sticking to only files would likely make the backup process/management more complex (maybe, maybe not) but with a VM backup, I have the option of a full VM restore OR just the files anyway.

So, watching @scottalanmiller video here got me thinking whether I should be backing up my entire VM file server or should I instead be focussing on just backing up the files?

It's not that the Windows OS is taking up a ton of space. After all, the entire VM with files is close to 30TB so the OS is simply a drop in the bucket. But am I gaining anything by backing up the entire VM?

I'm using Veeam to do the backups and to be honest, Scott makes a good point that if the OS ever gets corrupted in some way, I'm going to have to rebuild the server and want to only restore the files to a fresh OS. Restoring from a previous state is very useful if some patch broke something (rare) or if something else goes fubar and I lose a perfectly good VM, I can simple restore the whole thing, but in the grand scheme of things, would I be better off just looking to backup my files rather than the VM? Veeam gives me the ability to restore files rather than the whole VM so, do I gain or lose anything by backing up the whole VM? If I focus on saving only the files, then I'm not stuck with the same operating system to run as a file server.

Curious what people think.

I've never liked how limiting Weebly is. I realize you want to do this for as little as possible but a Vultr instance at $2.50 per month is nearly free. You can setup your own WordPress install for free and get setup properly right from the start.